The Egg Thief, Part 2: A Sidetrek

Pernicious Template (and 3 examples)

Pernicious Creature (CR +0 or +1)

Creatures with the pernicious template live anywhere evil fey are found. Pernicious creatures acquire the physical characteristics (such as green feathers, fur, or scales, and red spots), locomotion, and feeding habits of the pernicious platypus. A pernicious creature’s CR increases by +1 only if the base creature has 5 or more HD.

SPECIAL ABILITIES

Pernicious Chicken Swarm CR 2

Roiling, flapping, and hopping in a mass of red eyes and green feathers, the pernicious chicken swarm is a terror to behold. When more than twenty dozen hens’ eggs have been incubated and hatched in the insidious pouch of a pernicious platypus, the twisted progeny form a single-minded swarm of poisonous terror raging through the countryside!

SPECIAL ABILITIES

Distraction (Ex) A creature with this ability can nauseate the creatures that it damages. Any living creature that takes damage from a creature with the distraction ability is nauseated for 1 round; a Fortitude save (DC 10 + 1/2 creature’s HD + creature’s Con modifier) negates the effect.

Pernicious Owlbear CR 5

Looking like an enormous pernicious platypus, this unseelie terror lunges out at you in the twilight.